this is a cool thread but i cannot say i have had a great year because of a boombox
i guess tho i can say after my moms suicide in 2006 that the subsequent depression i went through was definately curbed by my boombox addiction.
depression is a wierd thing i mean i guess at the time you are going through it you dont really see how screwed up you can become.
truth be told i have always been a bit of a nutter on some levels and a brilliant on others. i dont really care what anyone thinks or does. its my life and i am going to live it how i see fit. there was no chance i was going to go and get meds for dealing with my depression. i am not saying its right or wrong it just was absolutely not for me. i mean doctors really never talk about the negative aspects of any kind of medication or procedure.
i always liked radios even when i was a kid.
there is several things i have always kind of been fixated on. radios is one of them for sure. so in those really dark days or years rather i decided i would collect boomboxes.
that same year i lost my job, my band wich was really doing well also blew apart at the seams. all this **** went down in a few months.
so needless to say i was screwed up beyond belief.
the days usually consisted of waking up heading off to the jam space and hitting all the thrift stores on the bus routes.
these days were the worst days of my life but honestly finding those blasters was a big part of getting through it. i can say honestly in the time i have been collecting boomboxes i have seen the ammount of them that show up on the thrift store shelves in the wild has greatly diminished.
i also have seen the boombox return in the form of the lasonic i931 alot of people thought it would never happen.
sure enough tho it did and i think despite the mixed thoughts on it that it was great it did. i mean lasonic was making it and it sells for peanuts really so what did we expect.
i still have not got mine but hey maybe one day.
so yeah i think filling my brain with all the model numbers names and other information in some way for sure gave me something to focus on.
i know i sure as hell could not focus on music at any point during the first couple of years after the summer of 2006.
i think its strange how the hobby of collecting boomboxes played a role in my recovery.
people think that depression cannot touch them i mean there was a point despite all the **** i have been through would just bounce off.
i tell you tho i was not prepared for the insane downward spiral the suicide of my mother was. i guess maybe that i never have had a great year because of a boombox. there is no doubt tho that the hobby did play a huge part in keeping me from sliding any further down than i was.
i have quite a few nice radios now. i doubt i will sell any of them. dont really know what will happen to them when i leave this mortal coil. i do have a firm belief tho that by collecting them i helped save my own life.
sounds crazy does it not. its true tho. so yeah i never had a great year because of a boombox.
i did however have something to distract me from the worst time of my life.
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